Custom size gingerbread house template generator (prints true scale)
Enter the size of the house you want. The page draws the two gable walls, two side walls and two roof panels at actual size and splits them over printable pages. Cut the paper pieces out, lay them on the rolled dough and cut around them.
What's next
I'm thinking about a village pack: five houses (cottage, church, tall gable and more) with roof styles, doors and windows to cut, as one PDF at true scale. It isn't built yet. The button below only adds one to a counter, so I can see if enough people want it.
Thanks, counted.
How it works
Width and depth are the outside of the walls. The gable walls (front and back) are pentagons: a rectangle as tall as the walls with a triangle on top for the roof. The pitch sets how steep that triangle is. At 45° the roof rises half the house width.
The roof panels run the full depth plus the overhang at both ends, and reach from the ridge down past the wall by the overhang.
Set the wall height to 0 for an A-frame. The side walls go away, the front and back become plain triangles, and the roof panels reach from the ridge down to the base.
Dough has thickness, so two walls meeting at a corner overlap by that much. If the side walls sit between the front and back walls, they are cut shorter by two thicknesses. If they cover the front and back edges, the gable walls get narrower instead. Either way the house comes out at the size you typed. The assembly guide shows both joints.
The dough figure is the area of all six pieces times the thickness times the density, plus 25% for scraps. Gingerbread puffs and spreads a little in the oven, so lay the paper piece back on the hot sheet and trim the edges straight while the dough is still soft.
More help
- How much royal icing for a gingerbread house: cups to mix for each size.
- Gingerbread house dimensions: six common sizes with every piece measured.
- A small house that bakes on one sheet: sizes that fit a half sheet pan or a 40 × 30 cm tray.
- Mini gingerbread house for a mug: tiny, thin houses with piece sizes and rim fit.
- How thick to roll gingerbread dough: what four recipes say about thickness and bake times.
- How to assemble a gingerbread house: wall order, royal icing and drying.
- Gingerbread house contest judging sheet: a printable score sheet if you are running a house contest.